Siberian Serpentarium
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| location = Novosibirsk, Russia
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| products = Snake venom, medications
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Siberian Serpentarium or Siberian Herpetological Centre is a serpentine farm producing snake venom and snake venom medications. It was founded in 1989 in Novosibirsk, USSR. It is the only serpentarium in Russia, and it is the world's largest producer of snake venom.{{cite web |url=http://www.rocka.ru/zmei/raznoe-o-zmeyah/novosibirskii-gadushnik-vosstanavlivaet-reputatsciu.html |title=Новосибирский гадюшник восстанавливает репутацию |work=Герпетология }}{{cite web |url=https://rg.ru/2017/06/28/reg-sibfo/edinstvennyj-serpentarij-v-rossii-sohranilsia-v-novosibirske.html |title= Исчадие яда |author= Никита Зайков |date=June 28, 2012}}
Activities
The activities conducted by the serpentarium are:
- biological research
- breeding of vipers
- extraction of snake venom
The serpentarium initially used common adder found locally in the Vasyugan Swamp. Due to demand for other venoms, it also mass rears and breeds snakes from the Altai, Far East and Central Asian regions, including Halys viper, the short-tailed viper, the Brown mamushi, Vipera libetina turanika and Vipera raddei. Snakes captured from the wild may be kept in the serpentarium for up to ten years, their survival averaging over three and a half years.
=Production=
The centre produces about 2,000 grams of snake venom in crystal and lyophilic forms each year.{{cite web |url=http://www.snakesociety.nl/jaargangen/2003/Litteratura%20Serpentium%2023-4%20156-159%20Gladkikh,%20The%20Siberian%20Herpetological%20Centre.pdf |title=The Siberian Herpetological Centre|work= European Snake Society }} It also produces snake venom medications (anti-inflammatory ointment).{{cite web |url=https://erch2014.com/obschestvo/72459-serpentariy-chto-eto-takoe-i-zachem-ego-pridumali.html|title= Serpentarium - what is it and why did they come up with it|work= ERCH 2014 }}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book| author = Ламин В. А. | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url = | title = Энциклопедия. Новосибирск | orig-year = | agency = | edition = |location= Новосибирск |year= 2003 |publisher= Новосибирское книжное издательство |volume= | pages = 773–774| series = | isbn = 5-7620-0968-8}}
External links
- [http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/615513/view Snake venom research. Science Photo Library.]
- [http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/615514/view Snake venom research. Science Photo Library.]
- [https://ria.ru/ocherki/20130207/921703895.html Как выжить после 30 укусов, или День в серпентарии. РИА Новости.] {{in lang|ru}}
- {{official website|http://www.sibserpent.com}} {{in lang|en}}
- {{official website|http://www.sibserpent.ru}} {{in lang|ru}}
Category:Manufacturing companies based in Novosibirsk
Category:Herpetology organizations
Category:Companies established in 1989
Category:1989 establishments in the Soviet Union
Category:Companies of the Soviet Union
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